as@prg.ox.ac.uk (Andrew Stevens) (04/23/91)
I have recently been given a really old hard-drive.
A real ST506 (single head, 5M!) enormous 5.25" box.
I am having some trouble getting this beasty to format on the Arch.
Reading and writing works just fine (I can format track 0) - but head
motion messes up badly. This happens even when the relevant pairs of
lines for slow stepping drives HFORM are commented in/out. Does anyone
have any experience of similar troubles and/or suggestions? Any known
bugs in/newer versions of HFORM? Do you need to modify it further for
*extra* slow stepping drives?
Andrew Stevens
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Andrew Stevens
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